| Description |
xiii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
The new rich in Asia series |
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New rich in Asia series.
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| Contents |
1. Theorising gender, power and modernity in affluent Asia / Maila Stivens -- 2. Indonesian women at work: reframing the subject / Krishna Sen -- 3. Love and sex in an Indonesian mining town / Kathryn Robinson -- 4. Sex, gender and the making of the new Malay middle classes / Maila Stivens -- 5. Between compliance and resistance: women and the middle-class way of life in Singapore / Nirmala PuruShotam -- 6. 'Flower vase and housewife': women and consumerism in post-Mao China / Beverley Hooper -- 7. Chinese cultural revivalism: changing gender constructions in the Yangtze River delta / Anne E. McLaren -- 8. Vietnam's women in the renovation era / Stephanie Fahey -- 9. 'Dutiful daughters', estranged sisters: women in Thailand / Nerida Cook -- 10. The gendering of post-war Philippine politics / Mina Roces |
| Notes |
This book is a project of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Western Australia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Middle class women -- Southeast Asia.
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Middle class -- Southeast Asia.
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Sex role -- Southeast Asia.
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Women in development -- Southeast Asia.
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Women -- Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions.
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Women -- Southeast Asia -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Sen, Krishna, 1954-
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Stivens, Maila.
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ebrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
97027163 |
| ISBN |
0415164710 (hb : alk. paper) |
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0415164729 (pb : alk. paper) |
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